Legalectric

How did I miss this?  Tom Micheletti’s house is for sale… has been for some time, since September 2009.  DOH!  Somebody’s been sleeping at the switch!

In the STrib:

Orono: A long way to go to regain value

Hennepin Co. “market” value $1, 362,000.  It hit a high of $1,582,000 in 2007.

Listing: 519 Ferndale Road North, Orono, MN

The bathroom is bigger than my office…

I wonder if they’re still here, or if they took off to Italy or something… it doesn’t look lived in or at all personal, not like the listing for Peter (a/k/a Tan) Mastic (!), maybe they’re long gone.

If you’re so inclined, if you have anything to say to the MNsure Board of Directors, their meeting is this next Wednesday, and Public Comment time starts at 2 p.m.:

MNsure Board of Directors Meeting

Wednesday,February 5, 2014

81 East 7th Street, St. Paul MN

1st Floor Atrium

1:00 to 4:00 pm

Meeting agenda

In today’s St.PPP:

For thousands of users, promise of MNsure is always ‘pending’

This letter is a must read — thanks to Kelly Fuller for posting:

TIERNEY LETTER

In this letter, West Virginia’s Governor is begging for help.  He spends quite a few words explaining a need.  Why is this even necessary?  Is it not obvious?

Yet despite the best efforts of the company and government many people no longer view their tap water as safe and are continuing to demand bottled water to meet their potable water needs.  It is impossible to predict when this will change, if ever.

There is little hope that these costs can be recouped by the party found responsible for this event.  The company that was storing the contaminants has filed for bankruptcy and there are several pending suits against that company.  It is very unlikely the state will ever receive any reimbursement for its costs from the responsible party.

This is exactly the sort of situation where they must pierce the corporate veil and go after them individually, civilly and criminally, and hold them accountable.  What are they waiting for?

From NPR:

How Industrial Chemical Regulation Failed West Virginia

Other articles:

West Virginia Chemical Mystery: Who Runs Freedom Industries?

West Virginia Official says residents are breathing cancer-causing agent after chemical spill

 

Maybe, just maybe, there has been some progress in the glacier that is MNsure.  Yesterday at the CARE Clinic, I was told the computer was down, the woman there had just come back from reaming out the unknowing toady who answered the phone.  She couldn’t help me because she had no access, but did offer some advice.  DEMAND TO SPEAK TO A SUPERVISOR, and DEMAND COVERAGE NOW!

Oh, OK, I can do that.

So I dealt with my poor bloody nose, took a couple of Azithromycin tabs, a squirt of steroid up the schnozz, and got belted into my chair (it’s still dizzy out, but better).  Called and listened to that horrible soprano sax elevator music again, finally was connected to “Mubarak” (sp?), who then sent me to “Eric” with a “warm transfer” (see, aren’t we feeling better already?), who said I should send in a hard copy application.  Now will someone explain why it took MONTHS to get to this point?  And so here this guy answering the phone, telling me to send in a hard copy and giving me an email ends up being the savior!  It’s that simple?!?!  We’ll see.

So fuzzy and dizzy, I got it done, sent it in.

Just got confirmation that he got it, and is sending it off to the bowels of St.  Paul to be masticated and spindled and mutilated, and, again, we shall see.  But one step accomplished.

Guess I’ll unpack my bag for the sit in at MNsure that I was ready to begin — it’s feeling that positive.  Maybe it’s just my drugs kicking in.  But I am so upset about having to lose a weel of my life to feeling like this when it’s so easily solved and I should be able to get in to see a doctor about something so obvious.  And no, unlike a suggestion over the wire yesterday, I’m not about to go into the ER for something like this, no way can I afford that, people without health “insurance” get charged three times as much as anyone else and it would be well over $1,000 for ER treatment.

And yes, today I am better, was able to get downstairs without any swan dives, let the poor dog out and didn’t skate around the back yard.  Two more days and I’ll be back in fighting form.

Thank you to Eric, the hero of the day!  Week!  Maybe even month!

As always, it sinus, all I needed was my stupid nose spritzer, which they wouldn’t refill a week ago because it was too old, and the clinic wouldn’t call it in.  So a week of my life shot to hell feeling like regurgitated dog shit.  Z-pac and nose spritzer here we go.

And then there’s MNsure, the computer was down.  Couldn’t do anything.  But the helper there said that  there is no restriction on people being married to apply together, when applying you’re supposed to include “an unmarried spouse who needs coverage.”  Gave me the instructions for the written application.  DOH!  I am really tired of being run around and around in circles.